The fated pairing of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John wasn’t at all times a given when it got here to casting the roles originated on Broadway in 1972 by Barry Bostwick and Carole Demas.
Linda Ronstadt and Marie Osmond have been among the many names advised to play Sandy, Travolta recalled to Entertainment Tonight, “and I stated, ‘They’re great, however each man on the earth needs Olivia Newton-John as their girlfriend.’ And I knew that ‘trigger I felt the identical method…And I stated, ‘If you happen to do not see this, you guys are nuts.'”
Carrie Fisher, Bye Bye Birdie star Ann-Margret and The Partridge Household‘s Susan Dey have been additionally on the checklist of potential Sandys.
When producer Allan Carr raised the thought of Newton-John, she did not instantly say sure. (However when she did, Sandy was rewritten to be Australian.)
“I used to be very anxious about making one other movie, as a result of my music profession was going nicely,” the “Bodily” singer recalled to Vanity Fair in 2016, “and I didn’t wish to mess it up by doing one other film that wasn’t good.”